Marking-machine for laundry articles.



No. 830,567. PATENTED SEPT. 11. 1906.

C. W. CANINE.

MARKING MACHINE FOR LAUNDRY ARTICLES.

APPLICATION FILED JUNEZS, 1905.

4 SHEETS-SHEET l MARKING MACHINE FOR LAUNDRY ARTICLES.

APP-LIOATION FILED JUNE 23, 19 05.

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' ITO-830,567. PATENTED SEPT. 11, 1906.

0. w. CANINE. MARKING MACHINE FOR LAUNDRY ARTICLES.

APPIIIOATION FILED JUNE 23, 1905.

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0. W.- CANINE. MARKING MACHINE FOR LAUNDRY ARTICLES.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 23, 1905.

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"Us 1 ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. CHESTER W. CANINE, o-F' DEs oINEs.IOWA. MARKING-MACHINE FOFI LAUNDRY ARTICLES.

. No. 830,567. Specification of Letters Patent. Patentedsept. 11, 1906.Application filed June 23,1905. Serial No. 266,629.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHEsT ER W; CANINE, al frame to present the machineat the proper citizen of the UnitedStates, residing in Des height forconvenient operation. I have, Moines, county of Polk, State of Iowa,have however, not considered it necessary to illusbe provided withstandards for a supporting- 5 invented certain new .and usefulImprovetrate such support. 6

ments in Markin -Mac'hines jfor Laundry Slidingly mounted in the topplate 6 of the Articles, of which t e following is a full,clear,'casing, which is suitably stepped for the purand exact description,reference'being had to pose, are a series of groups of keys 7, 8, 9, andthe accompanying drawings, forming part of 10, (four groups in thepresent instance,)

10' this specification. severally lettered 'and numbered with the 6 5 Myimprovements relate to machines for letters ofthe alphabet andnumeralsfrom marking laundry articles of the kind shown to 9. These keysare pivotally secured by and described in my pending application for thevertical rods 11, 12, 13, and 14 to hori- Letters Patent,- Serial N 0.147,540, filed -zontally-disposed key-levers 1'5, 16, 17-, and

r 5 March 12, 1903, in which a plurality of 18, arranged in banks andpivoted at .the 79 groups of type wheelsor bars are provided, rear endonrods .19, 20, 21, and 2 2, which one type-wheel of each group havingacorhave their support in the side walls of the responding typewheel ineach other group casing; Vertically depending from each keyand bearing asimilar but diiierent-sized lever 15 16 17 18 of each bank are the rods20 type, the similar but different-sized type of 23, 24-, 25, and 26,which slide vertically and 7 5 each group being selected simultaneouslyby are guided through slots in the fixed plates, the actuation of a setof keys, one set for cor- '27, 28, 29, and 30, which are secured inhoriresponding type-Wheels of eachgroup,where zontal position to theside walls of the casing,

y by means of intermediate echanism the while to serve also as asuitable guide for the 25 selected group of type of the various sizesare lower banks of key-levers the plates 27, 28, 8o

brought into position for proper operatingand 29 are provided withvertical flanges 30, platens to impress the mark selected on the 3 1,and 32, which are slotted to receive the laundry goods, the size of typebeing sekey-levers when actuated, the base of the lectcd to suit thekind of goods to be marked. slot forming aslot for the levers,while aslot- 30 It is the purpose of my present invention ted plate 33 alsodepends vertically from the 85 to simplify my former construction, toavoid casing-to to serve as a guide for the upperas much as possible amultiplicityof parts, most ban of key-levers. Coiled springs 34', andtoeconomize space in the arrangement 35, 36, and 37 are mounted onthe-several of same, to prevent any change of the selectrods 23, 24,'25, and 26, which have their 3 5 ed mark by the careless or accidentaloperabearing between the key-levers and thefgo tion of the keys afterthe proper type have 'de-plates 27., 28, 29, and 30 to return the beenset, and in many other respects to be ey-levers and keys to their normalposition hereinafter particularly pointed out and when released, ashereinafter described.

claimed-to improve the mechanical construc The banks of key-levers areprovided with 4d tionand operation of the machine. locking-bars 39, 40,41 and 42, one for each 5 In the drawings, Figure l isa top plan bank,which extends horizontally across the view of the machine. Fig. 2 isafront elevafront endsof the respective levers of each tion. Fig. 3] isa sectional side elevation bank and are supported at the ends byspringtaken on lines 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a secarms 43, 44, 45, and 46,suitably secured to 45 tional front elevation of the upper portion ofthe side casing. These locking-bars are bevroo the machinataken justwithin thefront wall. eled to correspond with the corresponding Fig. 5isa sectionalgfside elevation taken just bevel on the front abutting endsof the :rewithin the side wall. Fig. 6 is adetail side spective sets ofkey-levers, and the spring-' elevation of the operating devices for thearms tend to throw the locklng-bars inward,

5o printing mechanism. Fig. 7 1s a detail secso that when any of thekey-levers are de-"1e5.

1 tion of the inking device. I pressed the locking-bar will be pressedback 1 isthe base-plate, 2 3 the side walls, and 4 to allow'thekey-leverto pass and then re- 5 the front and rear walls of the casingto turning to normal position Wlll hold in dehold the operating parts.The machine pressed-position any key-le'vers that may'-. itself may besecured upon a suitable table or ave been actuated until releasedby'means 11o J with its respective sheave or drum 72, keyed that the tof the releasing-key47, which is con ledto' the other end,while thecoiled springs 73 are the horizontal lever 48, pivoted to t e sidesecured at the opposite end from the chain wall-of the casing. 49, 50,51, and 52 are connection. bell-crank levers mounted, res ectively, onWhen the hand-crank 71 is actuated as the key-lever rods 19, 20, 21, an22,connectabove set forth, all of the cylinders are ro- 7o ed,'resectively, by connecting-rods 53, 54, tated, so that the open portionsare under 55, an 56, pivoted to the horizontal arms of the key-leverrods, and any of the key-levers thebell-crankwith the lever 48,whilethe'vercan then be depressed and held down by the tical arms of thebell-crank levers are .conlocking-bar, so that the end of the key-rod 1onected by the bars 57-, 58, 59, and 60 with the will project into thepathway of the stepped 7'5 respective lockin bars 39,40, 41, and 42. Itspirally-arranged notches on the cylinder,

will be evident om this construction that and the respective cylinderswill be stopped when the releasin -key lever, 47 is de ressed in theirreturn by the proj ecting key-r and all'of the lockingars will be movedack to at a difierent place for each key, it being unallow the coiledsprings 34, 35, 36, and 37 to derstood that only one key jisactuated in80 return'to normal position any keys that may 1 each of the four grou sof keys. if have been depressed and which have been. Keyed on each en ofeach cylindersshaft held down by the locking-bars, the releasing- 'arethe 1gear-wheels 74 74, 75 7 5, 7 6 76, and

.key bein itself returned to normal by the re- 77 77, w i'ch mesh,respectively, with gears on turn-oft e locking-bars 'to normal position.the t pe-wheels 7 878, 79 79,80 80, and 81 81, 85

-Mounted horizontally underneath each whic are mounted loosely in theshaft 82,

bank of key-levers and suitably journaled in, horizontally disposed andsecured in the side the side wallspf the casing so as to rotate arewalls of the casing. These type-wheels 'are p the type-setting cylinders61, 62, 63, and 64, provided on their peripheries with type to one foreach bank of key-levers, extending corres ondto thenumberedandletteredkeys, 90 ion thwise under all of the rods 23, 24, 25, and t ecorresponding type-wheels at each an 26 thereof. The normal upperportions end of the shaft 82 are similar, except that the ofthese'cylinders are solid throu hout their type are, of different size.Only two sets of length, and the rods 23, 24, 25, an 26 extendtype-wheels of difierent-sized type are shown 0 very close to thissurface, so that in normal in the present machine; but it will bereadily 5 position none of the 'keys can be actuated. understood that byadding addition gears on roin this uniform solid'portion the'cylinthecylindershafts and additional typedrical surface of the cylinders isnotched or wheels on the ty e-wheel shaft 82 as many cut away spirallyin steps, as indicated at 65 in sets of type-wheeis ofdifferent-sizedtype may 3 5 Fig. 4, the several steps corresponding tothe be provided as desired. The rotation of the zoo letters and numeralsof the several banks of type-setting cylinders, it I will be seen,conkeys. The typesetting cylinders are each trols, through the gearing,the amount of roconnectcd by their several chains 66, 67, 68', tation ofthe respective t e' whecls' geared and '69. or other flexibleconnections, each' thereto,-and thetype-whee s are so arranged 'e tocorrespond with the key op-' 1'05 to a horizontal shaft 70, ournaled atthe erated'wil epresented at the printing posi-; back. in the side wallsof t ceasing, which tion at the openings 83 83 in front of the case.shaft and the drums or sheaves are rotated by Thegroups of type-wheelsare all mounted on the hand-crank 71 outside of the casing. The the sameshaft and therespective type of effect of therotating or winding up ofthe each grou arebrought'close-together inalineno drums 72 s to rotatethe several type-setting iment at t e printing position.- Thearrangeoyhnders in'the direction of the arrows shown ment oftype-settingcylinders each geared to I in Fig. For the upper cylinderthe rotaits wheel of different-sized type for the sevtion is in onedlrect omwhile for the other eral groups enables'me to conveniently dis-0 three cyl nders it is in the opposite direction, pose the cylinders inthe case so as to econo- I I5 because in one case, 'merely to preventthev mize space. Should an of the ty e-settin chams interfer ng withother work1ng arts, cylinders be located too ar away-to e geare theconnection with the cylinder is a We, directly with the typewheels,intermediate wh1le for the others it is below. It is engear can beemployed, as is the case in the tirely immaterial, however, in whichdirec resent machine, the intermediate ear 84 1'20 tion the cylindersrotate. Upon the several eing em loyed to'con'nect the cylin er-gearcylinder-shafts are mounted coiled springs 77 with tlietype wheels 81.'f 73, one end secured to the cylinder and the In order to print thedesired mark on the other to the casing, so that the rotation of I oods,the article is held on'the printing-sur-- the cylinder is against theforce of the spring ace 83, and the platen-lever 85, with its 125 whichtends to rotate the cylinder back to its laten plate 86, pressed againstthe article to I normal position. In order-to economize orce ituponthetype, either printing lever pace, the chains running from twp of thebeing selected-in accordance-with ilhQSlZB of cylinders aresecured atoneend oftheirrespect e desired.

5 t ve cylinders and for the other cylinders at he printing lever's 85-'pivcted .in no 10, on the low r end of the lever 98, pivoted nearend-of this in ing-bar 1s slotted at 102' and the casing and providedwith a' projection arms 87 88, depending from the casing, and each levercarrlesan arm 89, coupled at-the rear by connecting-rod 90, and arm 91with a rock -'shaft 92. This rock-shaft carries at 5' each end asegmental hook-plate-93, pivoted at the end of the. rock-shaft arm. 91and coupled at the rear by a coiled spring 94, with the nose 95,.on-t-he rock-shaft The hook 96 of this hoo -plate'.93 engages a rollerpin'97 type A on the first wheel, the type Mon the second, the type 4 onthe third, and the type 7 on the fourth wheel, into the proper printingposition,fand this is done simultaneously for provided. hatevercombination of symbols appears at one printing-opening, the samecombination will appear at the other printing openings, the onlydifference being in'the size'of the type. The operator then raises theplaten-lever by the handles 108 .causing theinking-bar to ink-the type,then placing the article over' the type he presses down-the platen andthe goods are stamped. When the marking is completed, the oper- 8o atorpresses the releasing-key, all ofthe lockcasing. The inkin bar carriesat its outer ing-bars areactuated to release the depressed its'ce'nteron the casing. A segment-rack 99 is formed on the upper end of thisleveri98, which enga' es the teeth on the curved inner end-o theinking-bar 101. The-lower is mounted in the'shaft 103, supported in theend the inking-pa 104, which receives its keys, which by the individualsprings. are I ink from the pad 105, pivotally mounted in returnedtonormal, and the typersetting cylinders being thus released are alsoreturned 85 106, against'which the end ofthe inklng-bar to their normalposition by the tensionears to keep the two pads in close contact.springs. Should the'operator be obliged to Asthe platen-lever 85 ispushed toward the leave the machine after the type are set, it machine(audit will be understood that there will not be possible for any oneelse-to disz 5 are as manyplaten-levers, inking bars, and turb the typealready set by striking other 0 [connecting mechanisms as there.are'grou s keys. If any other keys are depressed or' oftype-wheels,all'duplicateof'each.other)t e I sought to be depressed, thetype-rods will rock-shaft 92* is rocked, which in turn actueither comein contact with the solid portion ates the segment-gear 99 to rock'theinkingof the type-setting cylinders, or if any key 2 o bar 101intothe-position shown in Fig. 6. .in advance of the ke of any groupis'de- 95. The inking-pad'on the-bar is pressed against pressed thekey-rod 01 this key will have no the type and the further movement ofthe effect on the particular type-setting cylinder ate 93 causes it toslip oif of the pin ofthe group actuated, because the cylinder 97 on therack-lever, and the inking-bar is at will stillbe held in position bythe proper key ,3 5 once returned to its normal position b thepreviously depressedQ All of the keys must roo 6 5 through theconnecting-gearing to bring the action of thespring 107, secured to theower first be released by the releasing-key and the end of rack-lever.The platen-leverthen hand crank actuated before any selected impressesthe article to bemarked, and upon mark can'be changed. the release ofthe lever it drops back to its Having thus described my invention, whatall the grou s of type-wheels that may be 70 40 normal positionby itsown weight, returning I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let- 105'through the connecting mechanism the hook-.- ters Patent, is plate toits normal position with its hook in 1. In a marking-machine for laundryartiposition to engage the pin 97 upon. the next cles, .the combinationof a plurality oftypeoperation. f setting cylinders, a plurality ofsimilar type 45 The operation of the machine as a whole wheels withdifferent-sized type, gearing for no will be readily understood. Supposethe connecting the cylinders and wheels, and

- operator desires to mark a large number of means for actuating thecylinders to bring laundry pieces with the mark A. M. 47- the selectedtype into printing position.

some with large type,some small. He first 2. In a marking-machine forlaundry arti- 5o pushes back the hand-crank 71. This rotates cles, thecombination of a plurality of groups 1 T 5 the shaft 70, and the drums72 wind up the of keys, a type setting cylinder for each chains 66,67,68, and'69,-a'nd rotate the type- I' group, mechanism intermediatesaid keys setting cylinders tofitheir full extent until I and cylinders.for setting said cylinders, a there is an open space under all of thekeypluralityof similar type-wheels withdifferent- 55 lever rods. Holdingthehand-crank down, "sized type and gearing for connecting the theoperator then resses the keysA inthe c linders and wheels whereby thesetting of first group, M in t e second, 4 inthe third, t e cylinderswill set the type in printing and 7 in the fourth. These keys are heldposition.

, down by the respective locking-bars and the '3. In a marking-machinefor laundry arti- 6o hand-crank is then released, the tension cles, thecombination of a plurality of groups springs on the type-settingcylinders. carry of keys, a type-setting cylinder for each back thecylinders until they are stopped by group with notches spirally arrangedon said the depressed key-rods, and this movement cylinders and pins onthe ke s to engage said rotates the proper-type-wheels of each group Inotches and serve as stops or the cylinders,

a plurality of similar type-wheels with differ- 1 o sponding cylinderswhereby the ant-sized type and gearing for connecting the cylinders andwheels whereby the setting of t e cylinders will set the type inprinting position.

4:. In a marking-machine for laundry articles, the combination of aplurality of typesetting cylinders, a plurality of similar typewheelswith different-sized type the wheels of similar type arranged in groups,the typewheels of each group "mounted loosely on a common shaft withgearing for connecting the wheels of each group and their correactuationof the cylinders will bring the selected type into printing position.

5. In a marking-machine for laundry articles, the combination of aplurality of goups of keys, a type-setting cylinder for each group,mechanism intermediate said keys and cylinders for setting said linders,a plurality of similar type-wheels wit diiierentsized type, the wheelsof similar type arranged in groups, the type-wheels of each groupmounted loosely on a common shaft with gearing 'for connecting theWheels of each group and their corresponding cylinders whereby willbring the selected type into printing po sition.

6. In a marking-machine for laundry articles, the combination of aplurality of groups of keys and a type-setting cylinder for each theactuation of the cylinders group with notches spirally arranged in saidcylinders and pins on the keys to engage said notches and serve as stopsfor the cylinders, the cylinders arranged to lock the kcyswhen in normalposition, with means for rotating the cylinders to permit operation ofthe keys.

7. In a inarkii'ig-machine for laundry articles, the combination of aplurality of groups of keys and a type-setting cylinder for each. groupwith notches spirally arranged on said cylinders and pins on the keys toengage said A notches and serve as stops for the cylinders, thecylinders arranged in normal position, drum with connection der forrotating the cylinders to permit operation of the keys and springs forrerotating the cylinders when released by the drum.

8. Ina marking-machine for laundry articles, the combination of aplurality of groups of keys, the keys of each group having horiamanually operate zontal levers arranged in a single row, alocking-barfor each row of keylevers, to prevent the return of any keys actuated,and a single key-with connection therefor to each lockingbar whereby theactuation of said key will release all of the locking-bars.

CHESTER W. CANINE. I

Witnesses:

R.-P. IIARGITT, GLENA PRITCIIARD.

to lock the keys whentherefor to each cylin

